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The Flower Kings: Flower Power

Read "Flower Power" reviewed by Michael Askounes


It takes both confidence and talent to pull of a 60 minute long, 18 movement progressive rock composition. You must first have enough musical ideas in your head to fill up an hour, but then you must also have the backing musicians to perform it proficiently and enough eclecticism to keep listeners interested for this length of time – in musical terms 60 minutes might as well be 60 days – if you’re gonna take up that much time to ...

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The Flower Kings: Space Revolver

Read "Space Revolver" reviewed by Michael Askounes


Your journey with The Flower Kings’ latest release, Space Revolver begins with traditional symphonic progressive rock – beautifully arranged keyboards, guitar and mellotron combine to start the trip in familiar prog territory. However, just when you start to settle into your headphones, you somehow realize that the boys in the band have taken an unexpected sharp turn at top speeds into the land of heavy metal (with an either conscious or subconscious nod to Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf”). After the ...

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Swedish Prog Legends The Flower Kings Reveal Release Of New Album Desolation Rose

Swedish Prog Legends The Flower Kings Reveal Release Of New Album Desolation Rose

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

Los Angeles, CA - Swedish progressive-rock royalty The Flower Kings have had a busy year since regrouping in 2012 for the ‘Banks Of Eden’ album, and with a new creative vigor the band are following that with the fantastic new album ‘Desolation Rose’ due out in the USA on October 29, 2013. To be issued in a digi-pack, the US release will also include a bonus disc. The artwork, once again created by Silas Toball, can be viewed above and ...

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